Emulex Corporation is a provider of computer network connectivity, monitoring and management hardware and software. The company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of
Ethernet and
Fibre Channel
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-based connectivity products, are or were used in server and storage products from OEMs, including
Cisco,
Dell
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Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
,
EMC Corporation,
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...
,
Hitachi
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,
HP,
Huawei,
IBM,
NetApp, and
Oracle Corporation
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.
History
1979–1999
Emulex was founded in 1979 by Fred B. Cox "as a supplier of data storage products and data communications equipment for the computer industry." By 1983, Emulex was able to advertise its products as if grocery items: a 2-page spread headlined "One stop shopping for VAX users? Emulex, of course" showed 3 paper bags, each with the Emulex name and logo and each holding a large computer board. One bag also said "''Disk Controllers''" while the second bag said "''Communication Controllers'';" the third said "''Tape Controllers''."
In 1992 ''Emulex'' spun off what became ''
QLogic.
Much of Emulex's early market was for
Digital Equipment Corporation's
VAX and
PDP-11
The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of all models were sold, ...
systems.
Computer History Museum
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's collections include an Emulex disk drive.
2000 to present
Headquartered in
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa (; Spanish for "Table Coast") is a city in Orange County, California. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to an urban area including part of the South Coast Plaza–John Wa ...
, Emulex employed more than 1200 people in 2013. In 2000, Emulex acquired Giganet for $645 million, and in 2013 acquired
Endace
Endace Ltd is a privately owned network monitoring company, based in New Zealand and founded in 2001. It provides network visibility and network recording products to large organizations. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 20 ...
, based in New Zealand. On April 21, 2009,
Broadcom made a proposal to the Emulex board of directors to buy all existing shares of Emulex for $764 million, or $9.25 per share, a 40% premium over the stock's closing price on April 20, 2009. After Emulex's board of directors recommended against the sale, Broadcom increased their offer to $11 per share on June 30, which valued the company at $925 million. On July 9, 2009, it too was rejected Broadcom subsequently withdrew its offer.
In February 2015,
Avago Technologies Limited
Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...
announced it would acquire Emulex for $8 per share, in cash.
Avago, a spinoff of Hewlett Packard, merged with Broadcom in May of that year. Avago assumed the Broadcom name.
[''avagotech.com'' redirects to ''broadcom.com'']
See also
* Emulex hoax
References
External links
AvagoTech.com website (which redirects to broadcomc.com)
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